摘要:Increased international business contacts and mobility
necessitates developing/mastering skills of communicating in a foreign
language (FL) in engineering professionals, including mining engineers.
However, the system of FL teaching for non-linguistic, and especially,
engineering departments of the Russian higher educational institutions
(HEIs) is generally inefficient. At the same time, given an insufficient level
of FL skills in most content teachers, little support from their management,
the lack of proper methodological training and complex linguistic learning
situations, this process proves to pose considerable challenges for the
existing educational setting of the Russian technical HEIs. This article
summarizes the results of the expert opinion survey among Kemerovo
State Technical University content and FL teachers showing a certain
degree of doubt and unpreparedness in this respect. In this environment,
the authors suggest that the optimal solution would be a gradual
introduction of CLIL elements with a focus on more elaborated preparatory
techniques. The study assumes the need for forming a specific support
system provided by language teachers to boost learners’ linguistic
confidence prior to students’ participation in CLIL format courses.
其他摘要:Increased international business contacts and mobility necessitates developing/mastering skills of communicating in a foreign language (FL) in engineering professionals, including mining engineers. However, the system of FL teaching for non-linguistic, and especially, engineering departments of the Russian higher educational institutions (HEIs) is generally inefficient. At the same time, given an insufficient level of FL skills in most content teachers, little support from their management, the lack of proper methodological training and complex linguistic learning situations, this process proves to pose considerable challenges for the existing educational setting of the Russian technical HEIs. This article summarizes the results of the expert opinion survey among Kemerovo State Technical University content and FL teachers showing a certain degree of doubt and unpreparedness in this respect. In this environment, the authors suggest that the optimal solution would be a gradual introduction of CLIL elements with a focus on more elaborated preparatory techniques. The study assumes the need for forming a specific support system provided by language teachers to boost learners’ linguistic confidence prior to students’ participation in CLIL format courses.